1969 The year in pictures978-88-6965-195-3

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It’s the year of the first moon landing and the iconic moon message broadcast globally -- “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.

1969 is also the year of the Vietnam War, President Nixon, Give Peace a Chance, Woodstock, the debuts of Led Zeppelin, Genesis and David Bowie, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

It’s a year that lives perhaps more than any other in our collective imagination, through a series of familiar images.
The extraordinary power of these famous photographs will evoke its most significant events, call to mind its principal birthdays and highlight its key players.